They want to pilot a scheme called Rent to Own, where first-time buyers steadily build up a share in their home through monthly payments.
Even in cases where first-time buyers do find plenty of properties available in their price ranges, they are demanding more for their money.
The bursting of last decade's housing bubble feels like ancient history here, where first-time home buyers are competing with investors to get into single-family homes with prices approaching $1 million.
Trevor Abrahmsohn, managing director of the estate agency Glentree, admitted that buying multiple properties using equity in other properties was questionable in areas where first-time buyers are struggling to get on the property ladder.
In a 2007 season where first-time major winners have taken the Masters, the United States Open and the British Open, Stricker could make it a sweep at a baking Southern Hills, far from the snow-bound trailer in Wisconsin.
At a recent focus group where first-time viewers were shown episodes, Glenn Kessler said, "There was one person who said that he hated the show because he didn't know where it was going.
Christie, like Bush, also tried to soften his previous hard-line stance on cannabis, saying that New Jersey was the first state where first-time non-violent non-dealing drug offenders were sent to mandatory treatment rather than jail.
Mosques across the country are also offering voter education classes where first-time voters are taken through the voting process step by step, said Agha Saed, president of the American Muslim Alliance.
